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• /465/ Quick Coups & Post-Development in Korea ft. Jamie Doucette

  On the martial law crisis in South Korea. For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Jamie Doucette, who researches contemporary political economy and Korea's development at the University of Manchester, talks to Alex and George about December 2024's coup attempt and the past 50 years in the Republic of Korea.  Why is South Korea western capitalism's best propaganda tool? Did Yoon Suk Yeol want to institute a dictatorship? Did he want to militarise all of society, or only politics? How "unreconstructed" is the South Korean right? Do they dream of dicatorship? What was the Park Chung-hee regime of the 60s and 70s like? What is authoritarian developmentalism? Why did S. Korea democratise? Did the workers win it or did elites concede it? What is the post-developmental state, how neoliberal is ROK, and what does the left-right spectrum look like now? What was the Candlelight movement of 2016? Links:  /420/ Fertility Freefall & Gender Strife in South Korea ft. Hyeyoung Woo The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea, Jamie Doucette (OPEN ACCESS) The Logic of Compressed Modernity, Chang Kyung-Sup 

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• /464/ Decline Under The Donald ft. Daniel Bessner

  On Trump's foreign policy, the 2nd time round. Historian and podcaster Daniel Bessner joins Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Lee Jones to ask how this era of rot and decay will proceed under Trump II, from Ukraine to China and beyond. We discuss: Will we see "America First transactionalism"? Does Trump have a capable cadre to bend the state to his will? What will Trump’s relationship be to the deep state? How important are generational splits in attitudes to the US empire? Will there be a peace deal in Ukraine? Where does that leave 'Atlanticism'? Is confrontation with China baked in? Is the Middle East the key to world peace? Links: Empire’s Critic: The Worlds of Noam Chomsky, Daniel Bessner, The Nation American Prestige podcast EU blows hot and cold over Trump, Benoît Bréville, Le Monde diplomatique America First, Russia, & Ukraine, Lt. General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, Fred Fleitz, AFPI /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner  /142/ Dollar Empire (2) ft. Daniel Bessner

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• /463/ Reading Club: Place 3 – Sennett

  On The Fall of Public Man. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we discuss chapter 13, "Community becomes uncivilised", and deal with listener questions. How does the changed relationship between public and private impact notions of community and of place? How does the maintenance of impersonal relations signify 'civility'? Is impersonality really the summation of all the worst evils of industrial capitalism? What is wrong with yearning for community, or specifically “love of the ghetto, especially the middle-class ghetto” How does "fratricide" become "logical" when people use intimate relations as a basis for social relations? Why is fratricide "system-maintaining"? Links: 2024/25 Bungacast Syllabus (with links to readings) Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt The Making of a New Political Subject, George Hoare, Café americain

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• /462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker

  On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president's life and legacy. What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter, not Reagan, the start of neoliberalism? How is Carter's much-admired 'decency' of a piece with his neoliberalism? What is 'austerity' and how does it relate to questions of public and private, vice and virtue? What was the alternative to the neoliberal pivot in the late 1970s? How did the appointment of Fed chairman Volcker change the entire world? Did Carter set the script for the Democrats, of being 'noble losers' (but actually on the side of the winners)? Links: Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024, Tim Barker, Origins of Our Time Weapons of the Week newsletter On neoliberalism and the Cold War: /276/ Broken Promises ft. Fritz Bartel Other biographical/obituary episodes: Silvio Berlusconi: An Oral History /293/ Goodbye 20th Century (RIP Gorby) /410/ Reading Club: Deutscher's Stalin /435/ Reading Club: Stalin's General – Winning WWII

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• /461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams

  On radical conservatism and global order. Professor Michael C. Williams talks to George and Alex about his co-authored World of the Right and how the radical right has gone global. We discuss: Does academia takes the Right as seriously as it should? What's the difference between the radical right and the far right, the new right, national conservatives, or fascists? How is the right 'global' – not just through international conferences but by being "co-constituted by its relation to the global"? Why is the radical right focused on the global liberal managerial elite? What does it get right and what does it get wrong about this stratum? How did the radical right come to take Gramsci seriously? Is the radical right just parasitic on the breakdown of liberal universalism? What does this analysis of the radical right say about the Left – is it the force that protects the status quo of the liberal international order? Links: World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order, Michael C. Williams et al., Cambridge UP /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs /129/ The Right Is Weak ft. Corey Robin

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